What Were the First TV Shows Canceled Each Season?
This gallery was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for the new TV season.
They're usually not the worst (though, with a few notable exceptions, they're almost never among the best). And they aren't necessarily the most derivative or least interesting, nor are they lacking in talent. What they are, for a variety of reasons, is unwatched ... and thus extremely short-lived. We're talking about the fall TV season's first cancellations.
Like in 2016, this year's first cancelation came a bit later than normal—in early November. And, once again, it was not the season's lowest-scoring show that got the axe. How many canceled shows can you remember from past years? Find out in our brief look back at the last 18 years of television infamy ...
(2007) Though The CW's YouTube clip show Online Nation (at the time, the lowest-rated show in that network's history) was the first series to receive an official cancellation in the fall of 2007, Fox's Nashville actually got pulled first—after just 2 episodes—and it ultimately never returned to air. It shared a focus on country music with ABC's far superior current series of the same name, but Fox's otherwise unrelated hour was a (mostly) unscripted look at aspiring stars from the producers of MTV's Laguna Beach. While that reality formula had been duplicated successfully the prior year for MTV's The Hills, it didn't quite translate to Tennessee.
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